I’m pleased to be able to contribute to this debate because it is a very important matter, the Tata steelworks. Could I, in the first place, congratulate David Rees and Bethan Jenkins on their contributions? They’ve been excellent this afternoon. I won’t repeat their points, but it’s worth noting that the Tata steelworks is the source of thousands of local jobs with high salaries, with thousands of residents from Port Talbot, Neath and Swansea being employed directly and indirectly in this area.

Now, in February, the European Commission announced tariff payments to try to stop China from dumping cheap steel here in the UK, which is very relevant, as we’ve heard, to Port Talbot, of course. Now, this is the exact mechanism that the United States has used to set anti-dumping tariffs of 266 per cent, and 256 per cent tariffs on cold rolled steel from China—a total of 522 per cent, as we’ve heard already from Caroline Jones. The mechanism that has brought that tariff to the United States, the exact same mechanism, is available in Europe, but the UK Government voted against that, using the veto. That’s why the tariff is only 16 per cent on Chinese steel—because the UK Government voted against it. It’s very misleading to blame Europe for that. If you want to blame anyone, and someone should be blamed for this, the UK Government is to blame. It doesn’t make any sense, therefore, to blame Europe for a problem that the London, the UK Government, has caused.

We’re in a worse situation now, out of Europe. We depend on the decisions of the UK Government, and it has been against these tariffs. That’s why the payments are so low. The argument makes no sense at all, and all because the current UK Government wants to favour its new friends in China at the expense of industry in the UK, and Wales in particular.

We do regret, as Bethan and several others have mentioned, UKIP’s decision to vote against the Commission’s measures in the EU Parliament this year. They decided to vote against measures that would have raised tariffs, much higher tariffs, on Chinese steel. So, blame is also in your hands, and I can’t understand the kind of thinking that can bring this debate before us this afternoon when you are partly to blame for that problem.

Following the referendum, naturally, we accept the result, but we need to act in the interests of trade and business in Wales, and for steelworkers in Port Talbot. We’ve heard the history of the blow—.